Today I was down at the State Department with my UC class, and I learned that the Sate Department's duty was to be the face of the United States to other countries. This made me think, how do other countries like my research country, Morocco, show themselves to the world? I decided to look at Morocco and figured this would be where their civil society groups would come into play. What I found was that they are mostly focused on the local aspects of their country and trying to increase the standards of their society (e.g. women's rights, youth policies, etc.).
I'm under the assumption that all states provide some form of foreign aid around the world, and I wonder why places like Morocco keep so quiet about it. This is possibly due to the fact that I am trying to research this through American search sites where almost everything is about U.S.- Moroccan relations and nothing about Moroccan relations with anywhere else in the world. If anything, I believe that could be a problem as to why Americans so rarely know what other countries are doing because we don't report about it or have it come up on our internet unless it somehow relates to us. Is this the United States just being vain or is there a method to our madness?
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